No it doesn't. David Fincher has directed top movies like Seven and Fight Club. If anything, he has made more iconic movies than Ron, imo. Also, not winning and Oscar does not mean much... Look how long it took Caprio or Gary Oldman to win one despite being amongst the elite, despite being better than many other winners. They were denied an award for years. Many would have thought that Caprio had an Oscar before The Revenant on the basis that he has been in many top movies (Inception, Blood Diamond...), but this was not the case.
Out of the six that were shown, I got 4/6, correct again. That Oscar question had me thinking very hard since I knew the three directors had won and not David Fincher (but why all three lifelines, though?). Never seen, but had heard of both "Doctor Who" and "Deadpool", but just couldn't reach out to any of them. Still a lot of interesting movie and TV questions, too.
How does the audience not know about Ron Howard having an Oscar? He won it for A Beautiful Mind. There's always "Academy Award winning director" in front of his name.
The only thing I don't really like about the revived version of Millionaire is that when the fastest finger first answers are read out, Jeremy rarely gives any details e.g. years of the films release, when Chris Tarrant did it he almost always had details to read out, wonder why they don't give them to Jeremy.
too bad she wasn't clever when she went for the director she has heard of and not the one she and the phone a friend hadn't heard of and also didn't ask Jeremy who knew the answer